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On a recent trip to Oxford, I noticed that most of the colleges of the
universities had armorial banners flying. The Christ Church College flag is a
banner of arms showing two crows with a red rose between them in the chief, and
black field with a white cross, bearing a red lion passant in the centre and a
blue lion face in each arm.
Dave Fowler, 4 July 2016
The flag is a banner of arms (ratio 1:1).
is a banner of arms (ratio
1:1).
Coat of Arms:
Shield Sable, on a cross engrailed Argent a lion
passant Gules, between four leopards' heads caboshed Azure, chief or, charged
with a rose Gules barbed Vert and seeded Or between two Cornish choughs Sable
armed Gules.
Meaning:
“The House” was the project of Cardinal Wolsey and
called Cardinal’s College but it was completed in 1546 by King Henry VIII and
given its present name. The College arms are those granted to Wolsey. Cross and
leopards’ faces are from the arms of Ufford and de la Pole, some time Earls of
Suffolk, which was Wolsey’s county. The lion refers to Pope Leo X, who created
him a Cardinal. The rose representing England and the choughs (Latin:
Pyrrhocorax graculus) are taken from the hypothetical arms of Wolsey’s
patron St. Thomas of Canterbury.
Source: John P. Brooke-Little: Oxford
University and its Colleges, Oxford 1962(?), available online at
https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/oxford-university-and-its-colleges/
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_College,_Oxford.
Klaus-Michael
Schneider, 9 February 2019
Current
image by
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 March 2019
Blade is blue.
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Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 March 2019